Measuring and dispensing attachment for containers



B. P. HENIN v 22,404,496

MEASURING AND DISPENSING ATTACHMENT FOR CONTAINERS July 23, 1946.

Filed NOV. 12, 1942- Patented July 23, 1946 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MEASURING AND DISPENSING ATTACH- MENT FOR CONTAINERS 2 Claims.

The present invention relates to new and useful improvements in measuring and dispensing V attachments for containers adapted to dispense a predetermined portion of material from the container and has for its primary object to provide a device of this character of simple and practical construction, which is relatively inexpensive to manufacture and otherwise well adapted for the purposes for which the same is intended.

Other objects and advantages reside in the details of construction as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part hereof, wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout and in which: 1

Figure 1 is a side elevational view.

Figure 2 is a top plan View.

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view.

Figure 4 is a vertical sectional view of a modified form of measuring and dispensing attachment, and

Figure 5 is a similar view showing a modified form of cap construction for the container.

Referring now to the drawing in detail and with particular reference to Figures 1 to 3, inclusive, the numeral 5 designates a container adapted to hold fluent material and preferably made of glass or other transparent material and having a cap 6 threaded thereon.

Projecting through the cap 6 is a tube 1, the tube being secured in position by solder or the like 8. The tube 1 is open at each end and the upper end of the tube is closed by a threaded cap 9 while the lower end of the tube is externally threaded as shown at I!) for receiving a sleeve l I threaded thereon to provide an adjustable extension for the lower end of the tube. I

The cap 6 isalso formed with a reduced opening or neck 12 having a cap l3 threaded thereon.

In the form of the invention illustrated in Figures 4 and 5, the container I4 is constructed of metal or other opaque material and the cap I5 is frictionally fitted thereon. The tube designated at l6 also has the cap I! frictionally fitted on its upper end and the adjustable extension at the lower end of the tube is omitted.

Likewise in Figure 5 of the drawing the reduced neck is omitted from the cap I8.

In the use of the device, the container is inverted, the cap 9 removed and substantially onehalf of that portion of the contents above the sleeve ll of the inverted container may then be discharged through the tube 1. The remainder of the contents may be subsequently or separately discharged through the neck I2 by re- 7 caps 9 and I3, the neck 12 will vent the container,

moving the cap l3, and by removing both of the while discharging the contents through the tube 1. The size of the tube 1 will permit a, rapid discharge therethrough and the relatively small diameter of the neck [2 will prevent any great discharge of the contents therethrough during discharge of the upper portion of the inverted container through the tube 1.

The extension sleeve ll may be adjusted on the tube 1 to vary the proportions initially discharged through the tube 1 and subsequently discharged through the neck l2.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

l. A measuring and dispensing container including a lid for the container, a tube projecting through the lid and open at each end, said tube projecting into the container a distance substantially equidistantly of the top and bottom of the container, a cap removably secured on the outer end of the tube, a sleeve mounted for vertical adjustment on the inner end of the tube to form an extension thereon, a neck carried by the lid, and a cap removably secured on said neck, said tube being adapted to initially discharge a predetermined portion of the contents of the container when in an inverted position and upon removal of both of said caps, and said neck functioning as a vent during such initial discharge of the contents and to subsequently function as a pouring means for discharging the remainder of the contents, the adjustment of said sleeve varying the proportions initially and subsequently discharged.

2. A measuring and dispensing container including a lid for the container, a tube projecting through the lid and open at each end, said tube projecting into the container a distance substantially equidistantly of the top and bottom of the container, a cap removably secured on the outer end of the tube, a sleeve threaded on the inner end of the tube for vertical adjustment thereon to form an extension for the tube, a neck carried by the lid, and a cap removably secured on said neck, said tube being adapted to initially discharge a predetermined portion of the contents of the container when in an inverted position and upon removal of both of the caps, and said neck functioning as a vent during such initial discharge of the contents and to subsequently function as a pouring means for disinitially and subsequently discharged.

BENJAMIN 

